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bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output
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Rüdiger Meier |
Subject: |
bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:25:54 +0200 |
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On Saturday 17 September 2011, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
> On Saturday 17 September 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
> > I hate the way md5sum currently works. What we _should_ have done
> > is make binary normal,
> > [...]
> > I've had ideas of how to change things for several years now, but
> > [...]
>
> Yes, it's a real dilemma.
Just another point.
Of course usually we all are strongly against changing any default
behavior but in this case the default is that bad ...
Imagine a file server which publishes md5sums for the users to check
their downloads. Doesn't matter which mode the file server was using
when calculating md5 - the user doesn't know it. No way to validate it
reliable. Even worse if file server was using O_TEXT then a unix user
is not even able to validate it due to the missing --textmode.
I would say any serious admin is using --binary always now if he has to
do with systems where it matters.
So in this case I would simply break with the good manners and
make --binary the default.
cu,
Rudi
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Reuben Thomas, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Eric Blake, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output,
Rüdiger Meier <=
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Eric Blake, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Jim Meyering, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Alan Curry, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Jim Meyering, 2011/09/17